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...Elbow Room. The U.S. unit that found the going toughest was the 2nd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division, newly arrived from Hawaii. Assigned to the Cu Chi plain 20 miles northwest of Saigon, the brigade found itself encamped atop a veritable anthill of Viet Cong tunnels, in choking grey dust sometimes two feet deep. Enemy snipers and 60-and 81-mm. mortar crews penned the 4,000 men of the 2nd inside a perimeter only a mile long and 4,000 ft. wide-normally base-camp elbow room for only an 800-man battalion. Passage...
Losing Their Heads. Many of the sport's new "diesel set" (those who ar rive by bus) are untutored novices whom experienced skiers drive for hours to avoid. The newcomers elbow their way into lift lines, ignore ski-patrol warnings,, snowplow into middle-aged ladies. If their etiquette is lamentable on the slopes, their ethics at the bottom are worse. "Anything gets stolen around here that's not tied down," says Alex Gushing, developer of Squaw Valley...
Play was rough in the first period, but by the second there was hardly a check which wasn't punctuated by a swinging elbow or stick. The referees, who controlled the action better with tackles than whistles, had handed out 28 minutes of penalties and disqualified Harvard defenseman Demment and B.U. wing Bassi for fighting by the end of the second period. But these things were tame compared to a third period donnybrook in which Bob Carr and Ben Smith got in at least five fights before order was restored and the sorry mismatch was played to completion...
Harvard got off to a quick 8-0 lead as the Lions' Simon Olstein injured his elbow in the first period of the 123-pound event and defaulted to Howie Henjyoji. Bing Sung, wrestling 130 for Harvard, followed with a 4-1 decision over Martin Wasserman...
...Washington state-which with approximately the same population collected $42 million in liquor taxes last year. Johnson proposed to earmark the extra funds for the state's inadequate school system and public health services. Also tourists and conventioneers, who prefer not to break a law to bend an elbow, would probably be more numerous as a result...